Oct 18, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Brandon Flowers gets a bad rap, and often rightfully so, but Flamingo is better than you'd expect. More

Oct 15, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

Since Sleater-Kinney went on an indefinite hiatus in 2006, their members have followed dramatically different muses. Carrie Brownstein works for NPR, writing the "Monitor Mix" blog, while Janet Weiss has continued as a drummer and songwriter, both with her own band Quasi, and as an auxiliary member with the likes of The Jicks and Bright Eyes. More

Oct 14, 2010 DVDs Web Exclusive

The reason why Black Orpheus had such an impact at the time of its release is basically the same as why the actual citizens of its setting, Rio de Janeiro, disdained the film. More

Oct 14, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

George Lewis, Jr., aka Twin Shadow, is a Dominican-born small-town Floridian who found his way to Brooklyn, a sensible home for a multi-instrumentalist musician type accused of packing Phil Lynott's hair and Simon Le Bon's voice. Forget features Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor in the role of producer and label operator, no doubt an added turbo boost for this fashionable fella already circumnavigating the blogosphere. More

Oct 12, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Last year, Chicago-based electronic musician Dexter Tortoriello achieved the ultimate American dream—leaving it all behind. Tortoriello decamped to Hawaii where, before the money ran out and civilization came calling, he and girlfriend Megan Messina created All Night, Houses’ stunningly sensitive debut LP. More

Oct 12, 2010 Cinema Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

A biopic that chronicles the family life of John Lennon during his troubled teen years, Nowhere Boy arrives in the U.S. on the heels of Kick-Ass, another film starring Aaron Johnson in a lead role. If Johnson was anonymously forgettable in Kick-Ass, he is a revelation here, portraying the young Lennon as a witty-but-unsophisticated, brash-but-insecure young artist. More

Oct 11, 2010 Books Web Exclusive

Michael Heatley's examination of famed rock muses, while not extensive or exhaustive, is an interesting exploration for the layperson into the subjects of some of the most recognizable songs-about-girls. More

Oct 11, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

While the songs of Swanlights play like a logical extension of the progression from the last two albums by Antony and the Johnsons, they also feel like a possible conclusion, and maybe even a necessary one. More

Oct 08, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Listening to Deerhunter’s second and third albums (Cryptograms and Microcastles) was kind of like watching Neo make that first jump in The Matrix: there was just such a “holy shit”-ness to it all. Here was a band with one record under its belt growing up under our very ears. The distance they traveled over the course of tracks—much less whole albums—was astonishing. On their fourth record (though frontman Bradford Cox seems to record roughly as much as Tupac in his heyday), Deerhunter has settled into a comfortable, yet still thrilling, space. More